archpresbytery

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noun

The absolute dominion of presbytery.

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Meanings

nounarchpresbytery (plural archpresbyteries)

plural archpresbyteries

  1. ecclesiasticalThe absolute dominion of presbytery.
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    “The government of their kirk we despised” not, but their imposing of that government upon us; not presbytery, but archpresbytery, classical, provincial, and diocesan presbytery, claiming to itself a lordly power and superintendency both over flocks and pastors, over persons and congregations no way their own.

    1649 October, John Milton, chapter XIII, in Eikonoklastes. In Answer to a Book Intitled, Eikon Basilike, The PORTRAITURE of his SACRED MAJESTY in his Solitudes and Sufferings

Origin

From arch- + presbytery.

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